TACTICAL TUESDAY: TAC MED Q&A w/ Archangel Dynamics

Up a broadcasting network. We have to hit the reset, but to create a true culture preparedness starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. Welcome to the gun Metal Armory. Here's your host, Dain Dye. Okay, good evening, Team gun Metal. It is time to rock and roll and get into the gun Metal Armory tonight. Okay, So tonight we have we're going live tonight. We have our Angel Dynamics with us. Miles, are you with us? Can you hear me? I can hear you? Okay? Cool? All right, it looks like we're picking you up on the audio. So tonight we're going to do tactical medical Q and A. Or we're going to do medical Q and A rather and talk about all kinds of stuff that could come up during an SHTF situation or all kinds of stuff having to do with medical stuff. We're also live in the chat room. We'll be answering various other questions in the chat room. If anybody wants to pop in and ask a question, You're more than welcome to ask Miles anything medical. You can ask me some about gunsmithing if you want. But we are in chat we are live, so feel free to come in and ask. Okay, all right, so first I am going to get a few things out of the way. I don't want to take a whole lot of time doing my normal intros and stuff like that. If you guys have any questions for me, you can always email me at Gunmetal Armory at gmail dot com. Miles, what can they email you at? Miles? Are you there? Hey? Dan? You got me? Yeah? I got you? Man? What can they email? Sorry? By that was get my bluetooth hooked up? So yes, Instagram is actually the best way to get a hold of me. That is at Instagra, that is at Archangel Dynamics LLC. You can also email me at m Francis at Archangel Dynamics dot com. Awesome, dude. Okay. So also, and I'm sure Miles will agree with this, if anyone out there has a prayer request or anything they want Me or Miles to pray for them about or talk to them about, feel free to email it over to either one of us or message us on Instagram. I assume I am correct on that, Miles. You are one correct on that, whether it's a prayer request or even if it's just someone you need to talk to as a first responder. I'm really big on first responder and military mental health, So please reach out to either of us with anything you need. Cool awesome, Okay, So starting off, I want to do a quick product pick. Let's see, the product that I'm impressed with this week is from a company called Applied Gear. Now, I first learned about these guys on Instagram and they, from what I could see, they made some really nice buckle or really nice belts. I was really impressed by the look of their belts, and they messaged me on Instagram and said, you know, hey, you've complimented our belts a few times. Would you like to try one out? So I said, of course, yeah, definitely, I'd love to try one out. So they sent one over to me, and they sent one for my wife. And my wife is one of those people that, you know, she dresses very, very nice, so you know, it's it's tough to find an outfit that she wears that actually goes with you know, something like an EDC belt or a tactical belt, or some way that she can carry a handgun. Now that's not to say that she doesn't carry a handgun in other ways, you know, in other areas. But having in a duty belt or an EDC belt or anything like that that she would carry or that she would wear and carry her houlser in her firearm. That's not an easy task to accomplish. And any of you guys out there that have a wife or a girlfriend, I can assume that you understand what I'm going through. Women they have a different challenge when it comes to carrying a firearm than a man does. So the product that they sent is the double duty EDC belt. That's the one they sent for me, and the Hybrid EDC belt is the one they sent for my wife. Now, the one I have is is one point seven five inches wide. It's the larger sized version. Now, at first, when I saw the belts online, I thought that they were they were made of a much thinner material. I thought that they were going to be a little bit of a thinner material. I thought that they were smaller and maybe a little bit softer. Well, I'm happy to say I was one hundred percent wrong on that one. These belts are are are really beefy. These belts are b fee, They're thick, they're tough. In addition to my double duty Edy SEA belt, the team that applied gear, like I said, they sent one for my wife. Now hers is actually the smaller whip version, the hybrid DC belt. Now hers is the one and a half inch model. Now that's a little bit smaller than my one and three quarter inch or one point seventy five inch version, but it fits her style and her clothes clothing type perfectly. Now, she, like I said, she likes to wear certain types of clothing, and you know, she has her own fashion sense. So you know, getting a belt that that works for her is not an easy task to achieve. So this one seems to be working really well for her. And the the type of buckle that they use, the Cobra buckles from oh gosh, the name of the company, I think it's Austin Alpine the name of the company. The buckles they use are top of the line buckles. They're the same ones they use in the military paratrooper, the military parachute gear, and lots of the cobra belts and the cobra buckles that you see, that's the kind that they use out there. So again, hers is the one and a half inch model. Mine is the one in three quarter inch model. So finding a belt that will fit with girls clothing and not mess up their look. Again, it's not easy, but my wife absolutely loves her Applied Gear Hybrid EDC belt. She wears it with her jeans and her Vigilant Wolf Vigilance iWB holster, and of course her SIG three sixty five nine millimeter. She's still trying to find the exact way that she likes to carry everything exactly where she wants to carry it, you know, appendix carry side of the hip, carry inside the waistband, outside the waistband. But thanks to Applied Gear, the issue of which belt she will actually use to carry her handgun today is finally taken care of. So thank you Applied Gear. Now let's see what their site has to say about these belts, starting with the double layered Hybrid double duty rather the let's see here which one is it? Yeah, it's the double duty ed SA belt. Starting with that one. Now that one is made in the USA. It's got double layered one in three quarter inch nylon webbing. It's got a plastic insert between double layered nylon webbing. It makes this belt super stiff and durable for a holster or any accessory it's got hook and loop locks or hook and loop locks. The belt in secured position around your waist, which I can attest to that. It's got a pretty decent amount of adjustment. So if you need to adjust it for an inside the waist vent holster, or you want to really tighten down the belt around your waist, or maybe you want to use it as an impromptu repelling setup or something like that like they have for the raers belts, you could do that. These belts definitely offer that option. The double duty one in three quarter inch EDC belt has two layers of the heavy duty nylon, that's what it says in the description, with a plastic inserted placed in between the double layers. It's sewn. It's sewn with heavy duty three cord parachute thread. This is a heavy duty, super stiff EDC belt that's ready for your every day currie or CCW needs. Next, let's talk about my wife's belt. Oh my goodness, gracious, they're talking in the chat room. Everybody's talking in there. Okay, My wife spelt is the one and a half inch hybrid EDC made in the USA, just like the other one hybrid Cobra buckle fits easily through the belt loops, double layered one and a half inch nylon webbing. Plastic insert in between the double layered nylon webbing. Let's see and hook and loop belt. Hook and loop locks the belt securely rangea ways. Our hybrid Cobra buckle takes the hassle out of simply putting on your belt. The one inch female buckle easily feeds through the belt loops, and the Cobra quick release buckle function allows you to put on or take off your belt when you want. In addition to the double layers of one and a half inch dilum web, we've placed a plastic insert inside the layering to ensure maximum stiffness and strength for your everyday carry needs. Our EEC belt is the perfect addition to your DC gear, Tactical Uses or CCW belt system. All made right here in the USA. So those are the two belts that me and my wife are currently using and wearing each time we go out of the house. In my opinion, these are top of the line belts that will stand the test of time. Guys, They're made right here in the USA. I love that they come in a handful of colors, and in some of the belts they have camo camo types available too for some of the models. Now, my favorite part is the pricing. This is pretty amazing, Okay, it's really hard to beat the pricing on these. The Hybrid EDC that my wife wears is only fifty five twenty five. Fifty five twenty five, that's not bad. And the Double Duty, uh, the Double Duty one that I wear, that one is only sixty three twenty five. That's pretty cheap. Okay. The Double Duty comes in black, tan, wolf gray, multiicam or multiicam black. And if you want to get the EDC one, the hybrid EC, I believe it comes in black, coyote tan, or wolf gray. So I would get yourself a couple of these belts for you, for your family, for anybody in your family that carries a firearm, or even doesn't, if you were construction or anything like that. These belts are perfect for this kind of stuff. So take a look, get yourself one. Head over to www. Dot Applied gear dot com. That's a P P L I E D G E A R dot com. You'll be glad you did, guys. All right, so we're gonna bust into the medical Q and a stuff here, but real quick for there was a question in the chat room for me, and it regarded there is a new person in the chat room JRPP. And they asked about a trigger spring kit they just got for their wife's Remington five ninety or a Mosburg five ninety brother. Now, the spring kit they got claimed that it would lower the factory claimed the lord from the from the factory to a four and a half pound trigger pull. Okay, but he said that when he tests his trigger he's getting six pounds on average. He wants to know if this is, you know, because he needs to break in the shotgun or anything like that. Now, there is a stark difference between doing a spring job on a trigger and doing a trigger job. Now, just changing out some springs doesn't mean that you're going to drop the poundage on the trigger pull. Okay, it will help, yes, and it usually does drop the poundage on the trigger. But sometimes you have to either a break in the shotgun, which is something he mentioned, or B do an artificial break in, or C do a trigger job. Basically, now, putting it in the most basic terms, a trigger job can involve polishing any machine surfaces on the trigger, polishing any contact surfaces on the trigger, and sometimes not always, but sometimes it can involve changing the angle that the seer interacts with the with the hammer or with you know, the striker, or with anything that actuates the trigger system. So it can involve changing like on a nineteen eleven, you've got the hammer hooks and you've got the seer. If you change the angle of the hammer hooks or you change the angle of the seer, you probably shouldn't change the angle the hammer hooks. Please don't do that. But if you polish the hammer hooks and then you change the angle of the seer, then that is what would be considered a trigger job. You change the angle of the seer and how it contacts the the hammer hooks, and that creates a lower a lower trigger pole, a lower poundage trigger pole. It makes it so it's not it's not pulling nearly as hard or it doesn't take as much pressure to break that trigger or to have the trigger break. With a five ninety. With a lot of different shots guns, you're going to have contact surfaces, You're going to have your sear you're going to have your parts inside that are contacting each other. So my suggestion for anything like that, if you want to change out the springs, cool, definitely. I would always do that when it comes to any kind of gun. If you want to drop your spring pressure, if you if you want to drop your trigger, your trigger pull, then change out the springs first. That is always what I do with revolvers, with shotguns, even with rifles, I will change out the springs first. Okay, before I start polishing anything or grinding on anything, I will always change out the springs first, because that's sometimes that's all people. Need or all people want. Okay, But if that isn't good enough for you, if you want to drop it down even further, you can go in and you look at all the parts on that trigger system. Keeping in mind that when a firearm is new, a lot of those parts have been machined or cast, so there's gonna be a lot of burrs and rough edges and machine marks and things like that. So and when a firearm is broken in, all that stuff gets smoothed out. All that stuff becomes very very smooth over time. Okay, So you can do that artificially by going in and sanding down or polishing those burrs and all those rough edges off of all the trigger parts on the inside, or all the trigger pack or you know, anything inside that area the bolt, all that stuff. Or you can go in and you can change the angle of the seer and make it so it breaks a little sooner, or so it breaks with a little less pressure on when you apply a little less pressure to the trigger. So there are a couple different ways to do this. My suggestion is that you get something like a six hundred grit sandpaper, twelve hundred grit sandpaper, something like that, and I don't know, maybe a hard piece of wood, you know, some kind of little half inch by half inch rod something like that square, put the sandpaper on that, and polish off all the burrs, all the sharp edges, anything that will wear on your trigger system, anything that will get in the way, anything that will be broken in over time. Get rid of as many machine marks as you can, anything like that, but be careful that you don't take that gun out of spec. Okay, You'll want to pay attention to where the high and the low spots are on anything like that, on any of the surfaces that you're polishing. Anything like that. Okay, you don't want to have let's say you have a you know, a ninety degree angle, you do not want that to become a forty five degree angle. You don't want to round off a sharp edge. Okay. There are certain parts of a gun that need to be there, obviously, so don't go crazy on that stuff. The other way that you could do that would be to get something called crateex. That is something I've talked about on the show before. Crateex is just diamond impregnated rubber. You can get it at a lot of hardware stores, jewelry polishing stores or not jewelry polishing stores, like bead stores, places like that, or you can just order it online. I use a lot of the black stuff. Get black crateexs, put it on your dribble tool and use that polish off all those surfaces. Make them mirrored. You'll be good to go. Okay. Hopefully that helps answer the question, Jarpp. If it did not, feel free to email me and we will talk more about it in depth. You're more than welcome to send me any pictures you have and we'll talk about it. See if we can't get that stuff squared away for you. Okay, miles. Are you still with. Us, Yes, sir, I am standing by awesome. Okay, what do you say we take a quick break and then we'll come back and we'll get into the medical stuff. What do you think, Bud sounds good? Man? All right, everybody, we are going to take a real quick break here and we will be back with one to grow on. Don't go away. With so many sources of information out there, it's hard to know which ones to commit to listening to. It's about time a show came along that didn't waste time with useless banter and talking about everything other than the topic focus hearing gun metal Armory. We believe that if you are listening to our show, you want to learn, and we will teach you. Tune in every Thursday at six pm to learn about subjects that every prepper wants to know more about but didn't know where to start. 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So the questions that I see here, let's see JRPP said my medical question for the evening is what medical purpose does isopropyl alcohol have? Now, before you answer this, Miles, you want to give us a quick disclaimer. Sure, I'll introduce myself because it looks like we have a couple new people in the chatroom, and I'll also give my disclaimer. Okay, so my name is Miles. I. By the way, for those that have been listening for a while, I've been going, Hey, where the heck has Miles been? So I just recently moved my family from Tucson to a homestead in northern Arizona. Big shout out to Dane over here. He's been very helpful helping us with the move. Where we're not quite neighbors, but we live pretty close to each other now, which we're both very excited about moving forward with the podcast and our friendship. But so I've just been really busy with those of you that are homeowners know that it's just an absolute nightmare between the title agency and inspections, and it's a VA loan, So there's all that nonsense we had to go through, and then, you know, trying to move while working a full time job was ridiculous. But so what do I do for a living? So I work full time on an ambulance up here near where I live in north central Arizona. It's my full time job and part time used to be my full time job. It's part time now. I work as a critical care flight paramedic and I float along the Northern River of Arizona, So Bullhead City, Kingman, Fort Mojave Park, or Lake Havasu. Those are the areas that I'm flying out of now. And I have a long background and ems been doing this for almost fourteen years. I've also worked in the hospital. I've worked I've done military medicine, I've done tactical medicine on tactical teams and doing private military contracting. It's been a fun couple of years, and I'm now getting into education with my company I started about three years ago. We do firearms and medical education, and we also produce and sell a whole line of trauma. Kits which are awesome. Well, thank you, and so here's your disclaimer, folks. So I am not your doctor, and I am in fact not even a doctor. I'm just a guy who's been around the block a little bit and knows a little bit of stuff about a whole lot of random things. So we're really passionate about kind of breaking down myths and medical prepping. We realize that medical preparedness is something that's often really overlooked. If you guys heard our ad, that's what mister I am Liberty was just explained. So that's why my business is here, and that's why I'm on this podcast. So with all that said, let's go ahead and dive right in, shall we. You got it, buddy? So is there any legitimate use or does isopropyle alcohol have any medical purpose? All right? So this is JRPP with this question. Yep, And that's a very good question. So I'm gonna lump isoprople alcohol in there with hydrogen peroxide. A lot of people stock up on both of these items. They feel that they're really good for first aid. So let's let's go ahead and break this down. Both isoprople alcohol and hydrogen peroxide. I know he wasn't asking about it, but they often go hand in hand. They're sold right next to each other Walgreens. Everybody, when you were kids, that was what we use for first aid. But here's the problem that so both of those are really good at killing bacteria and fungus and viruses and all kinds of other nasty growth stuff. But when you're pouring that into a wound, you're also killing healthy tissue. So you're essentially delaying the healing process. So what would I say to do with either of these items? So I do not use these at all in wound care. When I worked in an er, I learned a lot about wound care. I worked with our wound nurses and learned an awful lot about hand how to handle chronic wounds and things like that, and none of them would would recommend you use either of these either. So what can we use these for? So let's quickly tackle isoproble alcohol. I don't at all recommend using that for wound care, but it's a very effective surface disinfectant. It's a good way that you can disinfect medical instruments. You know, certainly, if you're taking care of two or three sick people and you're functioning as the medic for your mutual assistance group, you want to keep your stuff clean. So you know, rubbing alcohol is a good way to wipe down your stethoscope. It's a good way to wipe down if you're using a reasonable thermometer. You can decontaminate it with that. If you have to clean us yeah, well for non medical purposes, but if you have to clean clean a work surface, maybe you have a metal table that you're laying some instruments out, you could certainly use it for that. And as you just touched on right there, hey, it's usable as a fire starter, so it certainly is not without its uses. And let's also take a look quickly at hydrogen peroxide. Again, it is not what I would at all recommend for wound care, but it can be used as a mouthwash, It can be used to irrigate an ear. Use that very carefully. Don't use any high pressure, just kind of pour it into the ear and rent it out with water and make sure that that ten panic membrane. Make sure that the ear drum is not perforated before you do that. And hydrogen peroxide one of the things that we use this for on the ambulance, on the helicopter all the time. For it's great at cleaning up blood. So we have someone bleeding out, we have someone with a gunshot to the abdomen or a multi multi systems trauma, thrown out of a vehicle or whatever and gets blood all over the place. We do our best to try and cocoon these patients, but blood still gets out. Hydrogen peroxide is one of the best ways to clean up blood. So again, both of these do still have some uses. I would not recommend that they'd be used for wound care. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Okay, so what was the next one in here? Do you see the next one was? Yeah, a couple of people were going back and forth here on that one. Who was it? I just saw JR. PP also mentions I have some in my bag for fuel and as a solvent. Hey, that's another thing too. Yeah, I didn't think about that. But you can absolutely use isoprople alcohol as as solvent to Again, not only is it good for cleaning medical instruments and and and surfaces, you can use that to break stuff down. Let's let's see here. Next one I see here is what is the best for stopping bleeding for small to medium cuts that I could. I would like to add this to my first aid kit for my work backpack that comes from Jughead. Okay, he says he has some two by twos and four x four some cling look at band aid medical tape, So that's actually pretty good. I actually have a what I call our minor injury kit. And for those that have been listening for a while or that followed Dane on his YouTube channel, and you should, he did a review of this kit, and this is a it's designed to be small, flat and compact, so you can just slip this into a pre existing ifax. So if you have a trauma kit that you're carrying that's got the tourniquits and the pressure bandages and chess seals and all that, well, what happens if I'm on a hike and I skin up my elbow? Do I need to bust open an eleven dollars h bandage. No, I don't. I just need some gauze and some tape. And that's why I developed this little kit and jughead. It looks like you have a lot of uff that I have in there. So I have four x fours in there, I have two x two's, I have a little pair of scissors. It comes with some gloves, it's got a small roll of medical tape in the new version that just came out. It's got some other odds and ends. But you're really on the right track there. So small to medium cuts, we're talking like a minor laceration here. We're not talking a giant knife stabbing into your arm and causing severe damage to body tissue. Really, a lot of those smaller injuries respond just fine to direct pressure with some four x fours and some tape to hold it in place, or an ace wrap to hold it in place. Anything above that, you know, we need to start talking about more trauma gear and the I'm going to move on to the next couple of questions, which are going to address that. I have a quick question here now, he measures later on, would the minor injury kit work for a cut that required nine stitches, Could he just use sery strips or something like that for that or. So it depends on how bad the cut is. We we grade lacerations, uh, you know, partial thickness or what we call single layer or simple lacerations versus you know, a a full thickness or deep full thickness laceration. So that's where we got to kind of talk about it. If it is a surface area laceration again, I'm not talking about going down to muscle tissue gauze again, is probably going to be okay to at least you control that bleeding. Nine stitches we want we try and space our futures about a centimeter apart, so that's still a pretty good sized cut. I think that at four by four not be sufficient for something that would require uh nine stitches. You might need something a little bit bigger, like like an eight by ten or an ABD pad or something like that, or you know, they are a little pricey, but you know, if it's that bad of a cut, if it's not ourterial and you can control it with pressure, you can throw an h bandage or an a Raeli bandage on top of that too. This is uh he mentions. Just a second ago, he said, Miles, you could see the ligaments in his finger. Yeah, that's that's gonna number one. That's going to require professional medical care. That's not a minor injury. That's not a minor injury. No, the minor injury kit is for I'm cutting open a package and I slip and I nick my hand, or I'm on a hike and I scrape up my elbow. It's designed for those injuries that we want to provide basic care to. Uh, they're not really designed for the more serious stuff. Now, if it's that deep that you can see ligaments, muscle tissue, fat, blood vessels, first and foremost. If it's an arterial hemorrhage, we need to be controlling that and that's usually going to be with a tourniquet. If it's not, then we need to be putting something a bit more aggressive on that. We may need to put some some gaus into that, we may need to wrap that with an Israeli bandage or something of that nature. Gotcha. No, there's a really cool question up here at the top from that nub my boy, He says, why are TURNI kits sold in most gun stores? There's a great question, dude. So that is a great question. And TN, if this is a typo, go ahead and let me know here in the chat. Are you asking why are they sold at most gun stores or why are they not sold? Because in my experience, I really don't see these that often in gun stores, although I wish I did as far as why they may not be sold in gun stores. Okay, not sold. He just corrected that typo in there, So let me let me answer that question for you. So all businesses, especially if you're in resale to you have to make a profit. So the first side of this equation is that, unfortunately, there are certain parts of prepping that are sexier than others. Everyone loves bragging about their you know, thirty five hundred dollars FN Scar seventeen and their three thousand dollars night Force optic scope. Nobody likes bragging about their trauma kit. Nobody likes bragging about their six months of freeze dried food. So a big part of it is that it's just not sexy and it's hard to sell. So that's problem number one. Problem number two is that in order to be a distributor that sells those things. And this is why I sell medical gear and not much else right now, is that I there's a pretty substantial buy in that you have to do come and you also have to move a certain amount of product in a given year. So if you're a small if you're a small gun shop and you're struggling and you're struggling to sell, you know, ten blocks in a month, you're probably going to be struggling to sell ten tourniquets in a month. And he says, so you can't profit off of somebody you blot out, Well, actually that's kind of funny. If you sell them a tourniquet and they stop their bleeding and they live, they can then come back and buy more guns and more tourniquets for me in the future. But yeah, this is you know, my opinion on this is that again, it's just not a very It doesn't get people going, it doesn't get people excited. I geek out about this, Dan geeks out about this, but not a lot of people geek out about medical preparedness, and it's a shame. And then that translates to, like I said, you're a business owner. You have to be able to turn a profit, and you have to be able to meet your yearly minimums to sell those kinds of things, and it is hard, even for my company, it is hard to meet those minimums. Sometimes. He said that he took a class and the guy that he took the class from said that if you carry a gun and you don't have a tournique on you, you are you are wrong. Now I agree with that one hundred percent absolutely. And let's let's let's talk about this yere for a second. So if you have an injury to your for moral artery, which is the main artery comes out of your groin and goes down your leg, into the back of your knee and down to your leg. If you if you injure that artery, if you cut that artery, you can bleed to death in as little as three minutes. WHOA, And I'm not just talking about getting stabbed in the leg or getting shot in the leg. I mean you could have a bad car wreck and a shard of metal could come in there and and jack up your leg. Or you could be in your wood shop and slip with a saw and almost completely amputate your leg. Or one of my more memorable nine one one calls you could be extremely intoxicated and think that it's a good idea to chop firewood and almost completely amputate your left hand with a hatchet. So it's important, guys. You've got to have the training, you have got to have the equipment. And here's where you also asked what other stuff he could carry in his EDC medic wise, medical wise. Sure, sure we'll add that into the same question. But if all you're going to carry is one item, make it a tourniquet. But here's the reality of it. You can bleed to death in three minutes. Wow, that is I could ask. I can absolutely promise you that nowhere in the United States of America, will you have a paramedic right next to you to apply a tournique in three minutes. In three minutes, we might not even be leaving the fire station. It takes about a minute to find out where you are, what kind of resources you need, takes another minute to bring down to the fire department, get the dispatch started. Then we have to you know, stop, you know stop, because we're either maxing our bench, cooking chili or watching Netflix. Right, that's kind of that's the joke going around, But it takes us, you know, thirty seconds to a minute to get outo the ambulance and start rolling. So three minutes you're bleeding to death, and in three minutes maybe maybe we are rolling towards you. So yeah, carry a tourniquet, know how to use it, other things that you need to carry. I did an in depth show with Dane. If you look back way back in the uh the archives, you'll see it. But gauz gauz galls gone. So tourniquets are going to be our first line for extremity bleed, so arms, legs, things like that. But sometimes a tourniquet can't work. What if you're bleeding on the groin, What if you're bleeding in the armpit, what if you're bleeding from the next So these are what we call junctional areas. So a hemistatic agent is always going to be what I recommend as our first line, whether that's quick clot sea locks. Those are the two that I carry on the web store. They are the two with the most science behind them. But there's plenty of other great stuff on the market, or even just regular gauze, and carry three or four packs of that compressed gauze. You're gonna want to have a pressure bandage, H bandage, is Raeli bandage. Those are the two that I sell. Those are the two that I have the most real world experience with. They're a great piece of gear, so that should cover most of your bleeding. I also recommend carrying a chest seal. I recommend a vented chess seal. So whether that is the halo vent I'm going to be carrying that here shortly, great chess seal. I have a lot of experience with the halo seals, going back pretty much as long as I've been in EMS. And if you another great option is the H and H H event, which is evented chess seal. So that's any any hole between the collarbone and the groin, you need to put a chess seal on it because bullets don't just go through and through. So what let's say, now, this is a question I was going to ask you myself, Sure, two things would you carry in your EDC if you could only take two? I'm assuming tourniquet is one, right, yeah, okay, what's the other one? You go in? H bandage? Are you going? You know? Sea locks? What do you what do you think the one other thing. If I could only carry two things. Now, if I'm in a tactical setting and I'm only allowed to carry two things, and I'm expecting direct contact from an enemy force or an aggressor of some type, those two things are going to be an AR fifteen and a tourniquet, because in Karner, the only two things that we care about are shooting the bad guy in the face and stopping that threat and stopping external hemorrhage from an extremity with a tourniquet. Now, every day carry for me, it's gonna be a cat tournique and a hemo static agent, whether it's sea locks or quick clot. Okay, so it's gonna be Would that be the quick clot or sea locks gauze or yes, the powder or oh not the uh you know what I'm talking about. We no longer recommend using powder. It was causing thrombo andbolic events. Basically, what happens is that a bit of that powder would get into the bloodstream, and yeah, it would stop you from bleeding to death. But now that chunk of powder lodges itself in your pulmonary artery and kills you from a pulmonary embolism where it lodges itself in a crowded artery and you have a massive stroke. I was told by a different buddy of mine that was in the medical field that if you still have the quick clot powder, you should probably get rid of it because it's outdated, it's not used anymore. Yeah, one hundred percent, get rid of it. It's it's actually more harmful than it is beneficial. Another couple of problems that we've had with it is that, you know, good luck trying to pour that powder into an actively bleeding wound, which is why we use the gauze because we can pack it straight to the source of that bleed. I remember the first time I used that powder, half of it just got washed out with the bleeding. The other problem that you have is that it can injure the rescuer. If it's windy outside and that powder gets in your eyes, it will severely damage your eyes. So if you carry the powder, dump it. It's worthless. Carry the gauze. What about the sea locks stuff that's in a syringe that you can kind of not in a syrent, but you know what I'm talking with the amplicator what about that stuff. Yeah, look, guys, I'm a huge proponent of sea loocks, but I still don't recommend that, and neither does the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care. The only thing that you should be using is a hemostatic gauze or traditional gauze. Okay, good to know. That's very very good to know. Okay. I mean there are other items out there. You can use, the new it clamp, although I don't think that those are on the market for anybody that it's not an EMT or a paramedic. That's basically a giant clamp. I'm going to be doing a post on it in a couple of weeks. And then there's another one called the x stat, which I injects a whole bunch of these little sponges. Hey, those do work, but they're like one hundred and seventy five dollars, and I can buy five things of cell looxcons for the same price. So which am I going to carry? You know what I mean? So Juughhead mentions that guy that cut his finger really bad down to the ligaments, and he was saying, I was just wondering what I could add to my first aid kit to help stop the bleed. I'm thinking the sea locks or the quick clock gauze would have been perfect for that. Absolutely. And I also see in here somebody had mentioned what can I carry other than kyne peppers. Let's go ahead and bust another medical myth. I'm not going to call anybody out. I'm not trying to pick on anybody, but I'm trying to make sure people have adequate information. So kyenne pepper does not work for life threaten For life threatening hemorrhage, there are some anecdotal studies, and ante not an anecdotal study. Anecdotes out there, and an anecdote is the weakest form of evidence in medicine. That's basically a doctor or a paramedic saying, hey, I did this one thing and it worked for me. There are a couple of them out there saying that it may be effective for very minor bleeding, like a cut to the face. I read an article by a pediatrician about two years ago, and the pediatrician said that he had used it in the er to stop bleeding from a small cut on a face. But really, there's no evidence saying that it's effective at all, other than a couple of stories, and again it's certainly not going to be effective for a life threatening bleed. So keep that cayenne pepper in your preps to have delicious and tasty food, and also keep that cayenne pepper in your preps. There is a legitimate medical use for it, folks. You can use that. It's not going to be my first choice, but you can use it to treat intestinal parasites. Wow, it's certainly not going to be anywhere near as a face active as an anti parasitic agent or even an anbiotic like flagile would be. But if that's all I had, yeah, man, you're gonna poop fire for a couple of days, but it may actually help. So are there any other multi purpose items that actually he's asking if there's anything else that encourages. Clotting, So anything that encourages clotting. Direct pressure and gauze, So you can use the sea LOCKX, you can use the quick clock gauze, or you could just use regular like the H and H compressed gauze. If you've ever gone to the like Walgreens and you've seen that big roller cling, it's the big thick Curlixcause yeah, that's that stuff works just fine too, but it's very bulky, it's very it's very Yeah, I love it. Yes, poop fire hashtag poop fire that's gonna be the the hashtag for tonight's show. Kale to stop the bleeding on a wound too, But no. Essential oils also don't work. Thank you. That nub. That's hilarious, y'all y'all in the chat room or hilarious you guys are keep me laughing tonight. But so a multi purpose item like gauze, you can use that for tons of stuff. Yeah, So let's and and I know that I've discussed that extensively on the show in the past, but let's dive in this real fast. So a tourniquet and gauze. Uh. Like I I I still highly recommend everybody owns some hemostatic agent, whether it is sea locks, whether it is quick clot But I know that stuff is kind of expensive. And I know that you know, if I had a burn or something that I was going to cause with uh uh, if I had a burn, I was in a cover with gauz, Do I want to use a forty dollars packet of sea loocks or do I want to use a two dollars packet of regular gauze. So there are now two studies out there showing that regular gauze can be as effective as hemostatic gauze if your packing is done correctly and if your pressure is applied correctly. So let's talk about a multipurpose item to encourage clotting. Carry just a couple of those little H and H compressed gauzes. All drop a link to where you can get those in the chat here, like, yeah, yeah, there's the TAT gauze and there's also the standard H and H prime at gauz. They're both two three four bucks somewhere in that ballpark. And I see a couple of potato starch and kale because it thickens the blood. So again, when we're trying to stop life threatening bleeding here, thickening thickening blood alone is not going to be enough. We actually need to apply direct pressure to the source of that bleeds. So get that gauze, stick your finger into the wound. You're going to feel a bit of warm pressure against the finger when you finally find where that tear is in that artery or vein. That's bleeding heavily, okay, and just start packing gauze right into that source of that bleed and then pack that entire wound cavity out, because what you're trying to do here is that gauze will essentially turn into a rock when it pulls all that blood into it. You're trying to rebuild that body tissue. If you have a major laceration or a bullet lug Yeah, basically it'll plug it up. So if you have a bullet or a major laceration, gone are the days of grab a handful of gauze and just apply pressure over the skin. You actually need to get into the source of that bleed because bullets fragment and they devitalize body tissue. You're trying to rebuild that hole and that gauze for lack of a better word, thank you, Dane, that's perfect. You're trying to create a big plug in there, So pack that in there, and you're going to want to apply direct pressure. If you're using sea locks or quick clawed it's three minutes. If you're using regular gauze. That's a great question that just popped up. I'll hit that in a second. But if you're using regular gauze ten minutes or until bleeding has stopped. And once you have control of that bleed, you're gonna want to use an h bandage or an Israeli bandage. You're going to wrap tightly over that bleed and around the limb to continue maintaining pressure on that torn artery. So this is why this is for you, right, correct, correct, You still need hands on for a couple of minutes to control that blood. But what happens when you move this person, right, you need to make sure that that stays put? Okay, But this is why, this is why tampons don't work. This is why powdered hemostatic agents don't work. This is why I've heard everything from let's pour sugar in there, let's pour potato starts, let's pour cayenne. I even heard someone say, let's pack dirt in. It just doesn't work. You need something that's gonna actually fill that wound cavity, recreate what that you're trying to recreate that lost tissue essentially, and direct pressure right into that torn artery expand. Okay, So what are your thoughts on fish mocks and the like? Do you have any all right? Fish at home. Yeah, so this is another good one. So I'm going to make this very clear right now. You just heard my disclaimer about twenty five minutes ago. In a functional society where I can call nine one one, or I can go to the emergency room, or I can call my doctor and say, hey, I have an ear infection. Can I come in and see you and the doctor will write your prescription for some antibiotics and send you on your way. This is what you need to do. So before I answer this question, I want to make it absolutely clear. The only time we should ever consider fish antibiotics is in a real world book of Eli Jericho, end of the World as we know it, the poop has struck the rotating oscillator, whatever you want to describe it as. Okay, So if we are in that setting where there really has been an SHTF event, because I can tell you right now, I am not the only paramedic who is not going to come to work when when when when it hits the fan. And I have a neighbor that's a sheriff's deputy. He's not the only deputy who's not going to come to work when it hits the fan. Because we're going to be worried about our family. So this is where we got to start thinking about storing stuff up and getting educated on this stuff. Dane. I think that the next show you and I do together, we're going to discuss some just overall preparedness stuff. I think the show after that we're going to dive really heavily into antibiotics. So let's go ahead and answer this quickly here. So, the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, does not recommend the use of fish antibiotics. What that That doesn't mean that they don't work. That just means that they are not approven their use on humans. That's why if you go to pet smart and you buy some fish mox, which is a max ofcilan, or fish flex, which is keflex, it's going to say right there on the bottle, not approved or recommended for or to be used for human use. Now. I have looked at these antibiotics myself. My father is a pharmacy he has looked at these himself. I've pulled out my Nursing Drug Guide, which has pictures of basically every single drug on the planet. I have compared a prescribed Keflex to a prescribed fish flex. I've compared a prescribed a Mockxicilan to a fish mox. The pills look identical externally, the capsules of the same color, they have the same coating on the side, they weigh the same. We've opened these pills up my father again as a pharmacist. As far as he can tell, they're absolutely identical. So the moral of the story is this, if I can call nine one one, if I can go to the doctor's office or urgent care today, that's what you need to do, and you need to get real antibiotics. But from everything that I have been able to tell from my research in a grid down, post apocalyptic real SHTF, I believe that the risk to these is pretty minimal compared to the risk of dying from an infection. And if you've all been listening for a while, we talked on our infection Control series that you know, again guns are sexy part of prepping medical isn't a lot more people are going to die from infection than from gunfire. In fact, if you look at the Civil War, three times as many people died from infection then died from gunfire. So okay, I think it's a good idea to store up as long as you are educated on the dosage of these drugs, when to take them and when not to take them, and as long as you're keeping up on proper storage. Just remember only to use in a real SHTF. They asked, how much should you store for SHTF personally use? Group used trading things like that, how much should you store up of any of these in and for in ASHTF situation? All right, so trading? I would never ever ever trade an antibiotic for anything, simply because I want to make sure that my family, my wife, my children, and the other people my mutual systems groups are taking care. Okay, So. What personally use? Okay, So here's the drugs. You need to find a max oficillin and I'm going to type this out in the chat here, so everybody in the chat. We've got about four minutes left. Dude, Yep, it's true. So we have to get specific antibiotics and we're going to stockpile a certain amount for s h T S. Another h j RPP also asked about essential oils. Are they real or are they hokey pokey? And I told them that they're fine if you want to do something like relaxing someone like lavender does. But you should oils for an all out asthma attack or something like that basic totally thing that you said. So essential oils. Here's my quick and dirty. There's absolutely zero evidence at all that they serve any role and acute or critical care medicine, which would mean a emergency of any type. That being said, we did use them in the er. So let's say you come in and you're having a stroke. We are still going to give you TPA to break that clot, but if you're anxious and you'd like us to, we're happy to get lavender in the air to help you calm down. They're they're great for like creating ointments for muscle eggs, but they're not okay for anything that's going to kill you in ten seconds. So got don't discount, but don't count on them. Antibiotics posts the antibiotics or no. I did, but I think that there's a problem with the chat. I think dude, it says you logged out. Okay, well that might be why I'm not seeing anything else. So here's what you guys need for skin infections. You're gonna need to get keflex and you're gonna need to get septra, and that'll be fish flex That cephallexin. Cetra is sulf a fox is ol tremethaprim. That's a mouthful and a half. So Kepra is usually your first line antibiotic for skin infections. If it does not get better in a few days, we start worrying about things like MRSA mursa, so we like to pile on top of that Septra also known as sulfa. Let's see here. Respiratory A maxacillin is really good. I'm currently taking augmenting, which is a maxiicillin and clabinatic acid. I have a ripper of an ear and sinus infection right now. So augmented, if you can get it, is really the best. But I've never seen a fish version of it. But let's say you went to your doctor and you were going to go on a mission trip to China, and you were worried about getting a respiratory infection. Maybe you could ask your doctor to write your prescription for ten days of augmenting mactrum. Yeah, so bactrum is a topical antibiotic. I do not recommend triple antibiotic. Ointment we'll get into that on our antibiotics episode, but buy a bactrum instead, or excuse me, not bactrum basi tracin. Bactrum. Yeah, bactrum is septra. That's sulfa. Okay, so basid trace in. You should be getting that. You can get that through my website. You can get it through Amazon, a lot of other places. Let's see. For gut infections, ceptra sulfa amoxacillin. Yep. For gut bugs, we want to get cipro. That is now our first line for abdominal infections, infectious diarrhea, things of that nature. If that doesn't kill it after a couple of days, we're gonna layer on top of that another drug called flagile, which is also known as metro nidasol, and there is a fish version of both of those drugs. Doxycyclin is another drug that you can use that's good for certain urinary tract infections and things of that nature. Oh Amoxicillin is also our first line for dental infections, so if you have a tooth abscess, sinus infections, ear infections, obviously, that's what I'm taking right now now. Cipro is also really good for urinary tract infections. It's really good for severe infections. It's a pretty pretty broad spectrum uh do to do uh And and doxa cycling is good for people to have allergies to penicillin. Doxa cycling is a pretty broad spectrum antibiotic as well. Okay, so those are good enough to get them started. I'm assuming because we are literally out of time. Yep. Absolutely. Like I said, I I want to sit down with you and do a proper antibiotics show, and maybe said, next time you and I do a show together, I want to just talk about some random prepping stuff and then the episode out for that will do antibiotics. Awesome, dude, Okay, well, I think that's going to do it for us. Man. I think we'll go ahead and stop there and we will definitely do a show on antibiotics. And what was the other one we're going to do is showing. H we're I don't really know. I know that we did the Conflicted series over the past month. That was a lot of fun and it kind of opened the door to hey, let's talk about more than just medical stuff. So I don't know, we'll we'll maybe we'll talk about some food storage essentials or something. But we'll find we'll find a good prepping topic and then we'll get back into medical the month after that or the week after that. Awesome, man, all right, thank you, Miles, Thank you for being with us. Dude. I always love it when you're here. Man, you bet. I kind of wanted to ask you this question before we left. I saw on a TV show where this woman had been shot through the chest and the nurse started doing compressions on her on the street before the medics got there. Is it a good idea to do, you know, compressions on someone who's bleeding out like that? All Right, So I am, among many other things, I'm an AHA instructor, and I teach CPR and basic first aid, and I also teach advanced cardiac courses and advanced pediatric resuscitation courses as well under that umbrella. But so here's the here's the real answer. If you are not a trained first responder and you see somebody go down and they have no pulse and they are not breathing, start CPR and call nine one. One, even if they're bleeding in their chest. Even if they're bleeding, because I would, Now here's the medical answer to this, The likelihood of somebody surviving a out of hospital traumatic cardiac arrest is less than five percent. But one of the most important parts to that chain of survival is early CPR. Is this person gonna make it? Maybe, maybe not, probably not. But if you see someone go down, I don't care if it's their clutching their chests and they go down or they get hit by a car, don't be afraid to start doing CPR and call nine one one. Let us show up on scene. We have advanced monitoring equipment, we have advanced medications. Let us make that decision. Gotcha, Okay? I would absolutely rather somebody do CPR on a person that has no chance then not do CPR, and a person that does so. Anytime anyone ever asked me a question about should I start CPR, my answer is one hundred percent of the time going to be yes. If we want to look at non traumatic cardiac arrest locally in Arizona, we're now getting close to forty percent survival out of hospital cardiac arrest if a bystander start CPR, if you wait till we show up on scene and start cranking away on the chest and doing all the fun things we have to do. You ain't gonna make it. But if you want to be a real hero and really make a difference, take a CPR class, learn how to use an AED and then go and take a stop the Bleed class and learn how to do tourniqueits we unpacking pressure bandages. You can one hundred percent save a life. Awesome because they will be dead by the time we get there if it's a serious enough bleed or the or if no CPR has been done. Please, folks, if you can take anything from this podcast or anything else I do, get some training, learn CPR, learn how to stop the bleed. Awesome. Man, Well, with that, I guess we'll call it man. Thank you again, brother, I appreciate you being here as always, and I guess that's gonna do it for us. Tonight, don't forget. Tomorrow night is the Open Bunker Night. Hey knows you may even hear me and Miles on there sometime, but with Miles hosting, don't forget. Saturday Night is the Family Affair, and Wednesday Night is James with I Am Liberty, James Walton, the Intrepid Commander, And of course we have Tuesdays with Ryan the I Am Liberty the Next Generation with Ryan Buford and his son. So thanks again for everybody for joining us tonight in the chat room. You guys are amazing. Miles, thank you again for joining us. Brother, We appreciate you. Hey absolutely, and I definitely want to thank everybody in the chat room. I loved him this little live Q and as thank you all for making this a fun night for everybody. Hope you guys learned something. You got my email, you got my Instagram reach out. If you have more questions, I'm happy to talk. Take care everybody. 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